Reply #17: The other problem is your ludicrous belief that the use of brute force by the IDF

[Ken Burch]

can actually lead to the emergence of a BETTER Palestinian leadership.

Why, when no such thing has ever resulted, after 60 years of collective punishment of Palestinians by the IDF and the Israeli government, do you still hold to such a curious belief?

Why do you not yet get it that brutalizing, oppressing and humiliating Palestinians on a daily basis, imposing on them a degree of suffering and misery that no Israeli could ever come close to experiencing, could have no other effect but to drive Palestinians towards the acts of resistance you condemn?

Why can you not see that ANYONE, subject to the treatment Palestinians have received, would inevitably end up taking the same course?

And why can you not see that Palestinians would resist in exactly the same way if the Ottomans, other Arabs, or even insane milennial American evangelicals did to them what the IDF has repeatedly done? How can you still insist on the notion that they only do this because Israel is supposedly a "Jewish" state?

The truth is, shira, if anyone treated you as the IDF has treated them, you'd do everything every Palestinian has ever done. AND YOU KNOW IT.

Anyone would. It's a universal human trait to resist oppression.

What part of reality do you not get here?

What is a Palestinian?

If you prick him, does he not bleed?